Posted on 05/20/2006 5:32:19 PM PDT by HHKrepublican_2
AP: "Too Close to Call"
NEW ORLEANS — Voters were deciding Saturday whether incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin or challenger Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu should oversee this city's long recovery from Hurricane Katrina — one of the largest reconstruction projects in U.S. history.
Whoever wins the too-close-to-call election takes office a day before the June 1 start of the next hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.
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The absentte is really low that hurts Nagin too
but its tightning
Mitch Landrieu 15,560 53%
Ray Nagin (I) 13,636 47%
I swiped that photo right here on FR!
I can say, right now, with great authority (firsthand), that at least one of the buses to New Orleans from Houston, taking the Katrina voters, has returned.
Evacuee neighbors screaming at each other again, after a whole day of quiet.
I wish wwl would give good results where this votes are coming from. I am dial up so I can really watch the tv link
Nothing will change. Corruption and then some.
Whomever wins will be in charge of billions of dollars for reconstruction.
I watch the vote totals in the two white districts that have contests, and the one black district that has a contest, and see what the relatively percentages are, of the vote counted. There are five districts, two of which, both black, don't have contests.
What, they're drinking absinthe again in NOLA?
A and B are the white areas, C, D and E are largely black.
Nagin is not really corrupt. I would trust him with funds rather than the Landrieu machine
An analyst on WWL TV is saying Landrieu has 80% of the 'white vote' so far, and Nagin has 80% of the 'African-American vote'.
How is Councilwoman Clarkson doing
Really Nagin does to need 10 percent better with the white vote I think to have a chance
oh no! ya trashed another keyboard???
http://www.nola.com/elections/returns_ro.ssf
179 of 442 Precincts 40%
Mitch Landrieu 19,219 53%
Ray Nagin (I) 16,811 47%
The looter guy makes as much sense as that lamppost on the opposite side of the creek.
Clarkson is down 22% with 35% of the vote in.
Damn, I want the Landrieus defeated. Landrieu spent all this money and it would send a good sign for political donors to switch from his Sister to a Republican in the US Senate race
The good news is that there would be a black backlash against Blank-Oh in the next governor election. She is the evil one who must be defeated.
Agree, there's no learning curve with the Landrieu crime family. They will hit the ground voraciously hungry.
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